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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Citus vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB

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Name

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.citusdata.com

newdatabase.com

www.esgyn.cn

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.citusdata.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Mobiland AG

Esgyn

Initial release

2000

2010

2018

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.1, December 2018

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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